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This is ILLEGAL #27, rewritten from paper by King Fisher / Triad.
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NOW 100% ENGLISH
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(C) 1988 by TRIAD - A Dealer Quality Mag
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Da offishial Syssie Four Mag!
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BUT WHO CARES?
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THE APRIL EDITION OFFERIN':
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THE STORY OF... ANOTHA EPISODE
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SYSTEM 4 OUTTA THE
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CRACKER'S WORLD...
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MEETING REPORTS! WHO (OR WHO?) WOZ
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UP AT THE
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MEETINX HERE?
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HOT NEWS! THE MEAN
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GOSSIP PRODUCIN'
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MACHINEZ ARE
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BACK AGAIN...
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INTERVIEW HAVE YOU EVER
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TRIED TO ASK
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YOURSELF QUESTIONS
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PHONE FREAKIN' ...IF YOU WISH TO
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END YOUR CONFY
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WAIT FOR A NU
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OPERATOR OR READ IT NOW!
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ARCADE ACTION ROLLING THUNDER...
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ON ARCADE, AMIGA
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AND C 64!
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AND OF COURSE ALL THE OTHER THINX YOU ALWAYS WANT... CHARTZ OF VIDEOZ,
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CRACKERS, DEMOS'N GAMEZ! WE WISH YA NOW... All Fun on earth!
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the Illegal-team
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MAD ALL
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SWYX
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Mr.Decibel
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and your Jeff Smart
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MAD ALL'S MAILBOX
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EXCELSIOR, the lean mean gossip machine is back, so turn on the music, grab a
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bottle of beer, sit back and enjoy...
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- Remember JAZOO of old Jazzcat fame, well he's back. This time he joined the
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ranks of that other Norweigan group: THE SHADOWS, they are all delighted, coz
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he promised the originals, TDF in trouble?
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- I was planning to write a big article on this but I'm too modest (or lazy?)
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so I'll just print it here: CFR has split up. Yes yes yes it's true but before
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you get out a box of kleenex let me assure you that we'll still continue under
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the same name, the people that are gone only worked on Amiga (well not really
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coz they only wrote one demo in 6 months and they wanted CFR to become an Amiga
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group only so naturally we split up, but this will have no effect on our 64
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work.
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- OOOH aren't those Beastie Boys getting a little big-headed, in their
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interview in Delirious Mag ACCEPT claims that all groups are lame except the 9
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groups they trade with, not a bad statement for a group that brought out a 1328
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Block long OUTRUN version.
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- As you probably know, C64CG, DCU and PLEASURE are merging together to become
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bigger but did you know the name? Well they are planning to announce it at the
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Venlo meeting of 16/04/88 but I couldn't resist so here goes: they will be
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called TRANSCOM.
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- Interesting to see at the last VENLO meeting that TSS and LETHAL of HOTLINE
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had a very big discussion with HI-TEC and TK of TRIAD concerning who was the
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better group, luckily they didn't have a quarrel over who was the biggest group
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otherwise they would still be there counting all their members coz both of them
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have well over 25 members.
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- On Hotline: I almost got lynched by some HOTLINE members coz they claimed
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that we in "ILLEGAL" only ever talk about SLEDGEHAMMER, so I asked LETHAL (in
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fact it was Lethal's own idea) to write a very big and complete article about
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the AMIGA virus. He will do all the research as he has access to ZILLIONS of
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computer magazines an I will write the article so look out for that!
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- Poor old Denmark and Germany, the groups seem to be falling like flies over
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there lately, the police is really beginning to hold razzia's and PLK's and PO
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Boxes get searched through, a real unhealthy situation, hopefully this is no
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sign for other countries.
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- I bet you a lot of hard cash that STRIDER of FAIRLIGHT won't stay away for
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long now that he stopped cracking on the 64, just wait until he meets everybody
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at the April edition of Venlo, he'll see that the 64 is much more lively than
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the Amiga. C U there Toni.
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- Two Belgian groups China Syndrome (CSI) and 4-Star have joined together to
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produce higher quality cracks.
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BYE from MAD ALL-IGATOR
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MAD ALL / CFR
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INTERVIEW OF THE MONTH!
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THIS TIME: Jeff Smart / TRIAD
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Everybody claimed they know nothing about me, so I decided to interview myself
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and believe me, it brings fun...
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?: Where do you have that name from?
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!!!: From a German comic strip called "Clever and Smart".
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?: How old are you?
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!!!: 18 years, authorized to do everything I wanna do.
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?: When did you come to TRIAD?
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!!!: On the 15th of January 1988 at 19 minutes past 8.
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?: How many German members did join Triad now?
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!!!: They are: Han Solo, Hi-tec, TK, FSW, Sir Arthur and F.A.M.E. (3)
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?: How many swap-partners do you have at the 'mo?
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!!!: FS, IKARI, FLT, BB, RWE, T8, HTL, ORION, STARS, CFR, TWG, SCOUSERS,
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TRIANGLE + DOMINATORS and sum othaz , about 20.
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?: When did you release the first "ILLEGAL" and what did it look like?
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!!!: Well, the first issue if "ILLEGAL" appeared on the 6th of January 1986
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after two weeks wondering how "Newsroom" works. It took about one single
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page and had a circulation of 5 copies. GOSH! It was so bad that I won't
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re-release it even though people asked me to do so. But even in the first
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issue there were a "game charts", some game reviews and some bad articles,
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all in German of course.
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?: What is your favourite music, game, demo and freetime activity?
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!!!: Music: New Order, Morrisey, The Smiths, Joy Division.
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Game: Epyx games, Combat School, Platoon, Pirates and Green Beret.
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Demo: Baby Blues from CFR
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Freetime: Sleeping, music + joking
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?: What are your best friends and your enemies?
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!!!: My best friends around are my mates from System Four, that are: Paer, Dan,
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Stefan and almost all others from Triad, Mad All / CFR, Ian / Fusion,
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Kaare / Triangle, George / SCG, John / Survivors, Nik / Ikari and so on...
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better said almost all mah contacts, if they either write long letters or
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I talk to 'em often. Enemies: NO COMMENT. They already have been kicked
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outta System 4!
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?: What the hell is SYSTEM FOUR?
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!!!: Haven't you seen it yet? It's among you, everyday! Only I know what it is,
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but I guess Janitor supposes the right thing 'n will surely know it next
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time.
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?: What was the best joke you ever heard?
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!!!: On a conference, I asked George from SCG: "Wossup?" and he said "My dick".
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Some others said it was their idea, but it was George's.
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?: Thank you, Jeffie.
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!!!: And you, Jeffie. HAHAHAHAHAHA
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Next time finally Strider from Fairlight who will be interviewed in Venlo
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hopefully!
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JS
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ARCADE ACTION:
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ROLLING THUNDER
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Have a look at our big cpmparision between ROLLING THUNDER - the arcade
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machine, the c 64 version and the Amiga version...
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HA! ROLLING THUNDER from NAMCO is quite a brilliant game on the arcade machine.
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Task of the game is to free some hostages while shooting all enemies. You can
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expand your weapons when entering several rooms, be always careful of swines
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with masks that try to blast yoy into pieces of mortal rest. It features
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brilliant grafix, a fitting sound and is damn fast. You can either use a MP Iif
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you collected ammo) or a small gun, of course the MP is more effective. The
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characters are superb animated and you jump one platform up and down in great
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animation, too. I really love that game machine cuz it's ultrafast and brings
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lots of fun playing it, and it earns a rating of: 96 points of 100 possible.
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THE 64 VERSION:
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US GOLD tried it... and... failed... A cold shudder seizes me when I remember
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this real bad conversion, if the name of the game wasn't ROLLING THUNDER I
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would not have noticed it, it's so bad, so fucking slow, you move your player
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faster than your bullets... The graphics also suck... this game is the total
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rubbish and the best one can do with it, is to open one's window and throw it
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out... Even the sprites, the movement of 'em is so bad, I really thought that
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it would have been possible to convert it on the 64, cuz there are quite a lot
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of that kind of games, but US GOLD? 0 points!!!!!!!!!
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THE AMIGA VERSION:
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I was really stretched as I took a look on the 16 bit version and GOSH! The
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title screen looks pretty nice (me thinks there was no on the 64, wasn't it?),
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ah, it remembers me on the arcade version, really. The sound is not that one
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from the arcade machine, but nevertheless much, much better than the fuckin'
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rubbish on the 64. The game: It's a little bit slower than the arcade machine,
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but it's very, very good. It's almost the same fun on the Amiga as on the
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Arcade. HA! Okey, the grafix are not so hot, but good, damn good. Compare the
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sprites and you really can accept that. I really liked it on the Amiga, so that
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my friend, at which home I took a look at ROLLING THUNDER couldn't keep me away
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from playing it... "Please another game, C'mon a nu one, okey, now the last
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one, yep, no the really last try, yup, my last game" and so on... If companies
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always make such brilliant conversions on the Amiga, I can start about thinking
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to buy finally a big calculator, eh? Amiga score: 91
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JS
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DOES THE AMIGA KILL THE 64 ??????
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"Are you playing again with your calculator?", questions like that are normal
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life for a 64 owner when arguing with an Amiga owner! They must tell you, those
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who only have to enter their disks in their drives and without typing any
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command the game is loaded into the computer, isn't that easy? Now, the latest
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state is that some real known guys from the 64 biz changed from 64 to Amiga,
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searching for higher goals in SYSTEM FOUR! The two were on the one hand IAN
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from FUSION, who almost earned to be a cracker of the month alone and on the
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other hand STRIDER from FAIRLIGHT know for many, many cracks with funny slogans
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against communists, remember: "Play pool billiard with a commies' ball" or some
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like that? Is that a sign for all others?
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Well, in fact I think no, cuz the Amiga offers better grafix, better sounds,
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okey, but not better games as many of the 64 games are converted now but
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without becoming better, you see? No reason for me to sell my little 64 for an
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Amiga, ha! Anyway, FUSION also continues as FAIRLIGHT does, and you see that
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STRIDER is beginning to write in intro text again (about SYSTEM FOUR...) I
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think he will also return to the cracking ones, surely! BIG EASTERN EGGS from:
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Jeff Smart
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THE POLICE IN GERMANY
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Everybody who lives in SYSTEM FOUR is scared of the police, that at least in
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Germany is very strong and also catched a lot of guys. It had become such a
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situation that lamers pretended they were caught showing them belonging to them
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who are worth to be catched. Damn lame, isn't it?
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The mean methods are ads in obscure computer magazines, that ask you about
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swapping, buying software or just a telephone number that offers you to call.
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Some guys from the German software police (they really exist!) made such ads to
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catch some guys, who are lame enough to call those guys.
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"DELIRIOUS" vs "ILLEGAL"
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After D.C.U. released the first issue of their new "Delirious Mag" on the Venlo
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meeting last month, people thought about a big battle between TRIAD and DCU
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concerning their magazines, but they thought totally wrong. There's no
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rivality, but a good friendship between Jayce, in his person the editor of the
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DCU, now TRANSCOM, magazine and me as I promised him alsways to write him an
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article for his magazine but only because I'm a lazy pig the article didn't
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reach Jayce in time for the last mag out. Now he got it and I'm sure you can
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read about "The German Crackers" in "Delirious Mag No.2". What people didn't
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understand is that MAD ALL / CFR is publishing his "Mailbox" in both magazines
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and in fact I don't understand, too. But I think it's up to MAD ALL who has of
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course the right to publish his articles in both magazines, but still writes
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here in "ILLEGAL" more expanded articles. So don't claim... the only thing I
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don't like is that DCU can spread their mag for nothing and I have to take
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money for it, cuz I don't get copies for free as they do, but it's still OK!
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JS
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GERMAN RATS:
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THE A.S.M.
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Do you remember the A.S.M.? The "Aktueller Software Markt", the official German
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computer magazine (comparable to C+VG in UK) that have been present at the
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RADWAR party on January the 9th of 1988? I told you about 'em intha last issue,
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but here again. They went around trying to make photos of big and known groups
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and published 'em with black stroke over the guys' eyes. And they were quite
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proud to see their photos in the March issue of that magazine.
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So what about it, you will ask? Well, it can be heard that two members of the
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well-known Amiga group "Tristar" were caught by the police!
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You must be blind if you don't recognize a connection between the photo in the
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A.S.M. that showed the whole "Tristar"-crew and their cruel end. Anyway, after
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a couple of weeks later it really can be heard that some guys of the A.S.M.
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gave all their photos out to the German software police as special evidence
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material. Isn't that nice?
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First those swines lick everybody's ass to get an invitation for the party,
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then they lick everybody's ass to make some photos and even asked 'em to to
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send new warez to 'em... I think it hasn't been all yet.
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JS
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PHONE FREAKIN' NEWS
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How what is going this month with the conferences to Germany who has still the
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best protected telephonesystem (FUCK)? Well, as it concerns me, I can say that
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I had enough conferences this month (Thax to Survivors, Kevin and all others I
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don't remember!) and some 3-ways also (with Nik the d...). Anyway I was told
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that unknown Shield had started a conference from Germany... Well, no comment!
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Anyway it seems that it became easier now for Americans to start conferences,
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but I heard bad news, eventhough they aren't proved yet, so I was told that
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Badd Boy from The Survivors got busted and had to pay about 1000 Dollars to the
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companies.
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Hum, I hope it's not true, Johnnie! Anyway, Nik from Ikari even called me on a
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free call in the middle of the night (2 a.m.!), for the European it's quite
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safe, but all Yanks are afraid of AT&T who really are holding razzias again...
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Now it can also be heard that there exists a kind of trick that could remove
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poor guys from the black list, eh? Janitor and Mike / F.A.M.E. still are and
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look forward to these news... Hear from U on a confy!
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JS
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THE MEETING REPORTS
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Only the evergreen Venlo could offer a party intha last month as the WOD party
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felt out cuz the guys got in deeper contact with the police...
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Anyway the Venlo meeting was a little bit sad as there was simultaneously the
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CEBIT, a big computer mess, Germanys small opposite to the PCW show, in
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Hannover where quite a lot of friends were present, so did RADWAR, some from
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HOTLINE, TRISTAR, MR.ZEROPAGE and so on.
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Only a few of the guys that normally come to Venlo showed up on the 19th of
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March, so did ORION, C64CG, SLH / HOTLINE, CFR and for the first time DCU from
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France. I was told that nothing was up there as people really missed the big
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and known groups, but more people showed up than in February and that shows
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that Venlo is getting too overcrowded. A cold shudder seized me as I heard how
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many lamers asked Hi-Tec of TRIAD to swap.
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Anyway, the next Venlo edition seems to become the best ever, so pack yer bag
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and show who you are (even if you're a zombie!).
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Jeff
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64
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HA! Now ya entered the 64 games review page, congratulations!
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Please enter your name:
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Okey, serious again, here goes:
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* BLOOD VALLEY, a long time ago announced now released... and it's simple RUN-
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and-FIGHT game with quite nice grafix and a cool sound fx, but rather boooring
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than entertaining. Score: 72 / 100
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* IO, one of the shortest names for games ever. It cums from FIREBIRD and even
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though it's another (the 2.983.457th of this sort of game) Shoot 'em up, it's
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cool. You can get better weapons, but the masterpiece are the grafix that were
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drawn by Bob Stevensen (remember BMX Kidz Title Screen). The game is fuckin'
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swine to play, so damn difficult, that probably no normal freak is able to get
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through that game without a trainer, anyway it scored: 84 / 100
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* VENOM STRIKES BACK, MASK III. The third part of the hopefully soon ending
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Mask Games series, but it's much better than the preceding ones, another Shoot
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'em up, but it brings fun anyway. Use digits for changing your player
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character. Score: 72 / 100
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* SUPER HANG ON, God, another arcade machine converted by Activision. The name
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is counting, not the game, so it'll probably be a success like OUTRUN, but
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there are no differences to other games like that as ENDURO RACER or BUGGY BOY
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(the best of that kind), nice sounds, nevertheless a bad conversion, scoring:
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39
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* IKARI WARRIORS, as everybody thought ELITE released the European version and
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it's a damn good game with no connection to the USA version, luckily. With a
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fine intro the game features the blastin' of thousands of enemies and many
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more... try to get through the whole game, nice sprites as an ending sequence,
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damn good Shoot 'em up, so 88.
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* CORPORATION, another stunning new game concept from ACTIVISION it takes place
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in the year 3026 and you must succeed in your mission in order not to loose
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your job, cool grafix, a cooler title tune, and a very cool game, so 92 / 100.
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* SINBAD and the throne of the falcon from CINEMAWARE looks different from the
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Amiga version with more play sequences and less tactical moves, nevertheless
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the grafix are fantastic (the normal standard for CINEMAWARE) but the game gets
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boring, cuz it's damn hard to play, compare the title sound from the 64 to the
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Amiga tune, funny, funny, eh? But still a very, very good conversion from 16
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bit to 8 bit, one can only hope for more games from the best graphicians, 92 /
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100.
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* TARGET RENEGADE, the follow up to RENEGADE, this time featurin' a pure
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joystick control and GOSH! the game is hot! OCEAN improved it with better
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grafix and more levels, so it had become a multi-load game. Watch out for the
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ending sequence, fantastic great job, score: 92 / 100.
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* TROLL, from DENTON DESIGNS shows a great title piccy and cute game grafix,
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but what for the hell is the aim of that game? Funny anyway so a score of 86.
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* PACLAND, a well done conversion from the arcade machine featurin' everything
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that one is used to play with, when you have to help old Pacman, f1 to enter
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credits, f3 one and f5 two players and 88 pts.
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* RIMRUNNER, what a cool grafix at the beginning of the game in which you have
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to ride on your, eh?... on your, hum? Anyway, you ride and have to be careful
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of defective generators and it's your task to repair 'em. A great sound let
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this game get 90 points.
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* SCOUT, written by IAN+MIC who used to be members of TRIAD, sold to
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MASTERTRONIC featurin' sounds from JT. Really not a bad game, driving and
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jumping, shootin' up, but slowly it gets boring, nevertheless 82 points.
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* THE THREE STOOGES, anutha masterpiece from CINEMAWARE with a brilliant
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conversion of a movie into a computer game, the graphics is of course also fab
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as the game is. Score: 94 points.
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* THE GAMES: WINTER EDITION, still remember the frustration when you told your
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friends in the USA to send it as fast as possible and then it didn't work?
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Well, fortunately we had two salvators, JANITOR and MR.ZEROPAGE. Anyway, the
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game isn't as good as CALIFORNIA GAMES, maybe cuz of EPYX lost Mikael Kosaka to
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ELECTRONIC ARTS, who made all the fine grafix formerly. THE GAMES:
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1) LUGE, nice grafix, use joystick down at the beginning, and then sometimes
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down + button to get speed, quite nice but not exciting.
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2) CROSS COUNTRY: remember Speed Skating in old Winter Games, same movements
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here. Grafix not bad, nice scrolling, split screen.
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3) FIGURE SKATING: lots of details, first choose yer music, make the choice of
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the jumps you want to make during the music then try to play, quite difficult,
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eh?
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4) SKI JUMP: nice features, but when you fly through the air you can't
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recognize how far you flew, that's quite bad, but it brings fun, cuz it's also
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difficult to make good jumps.
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5) SPEED SKATING: moving the joystick with the player.
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6) SLALOM: left, right, left, right, you only have to concentrate a bit to be
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successful.
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7) DOWNHILL is more Slalom than Downhill, but probably the best event.
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All together very good, but it's not CALIFORNIA GAMES, so: 95 points.
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JS
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ILLEGAL (Redline 97)
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WHAT ELSE...?
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ASVERTISIN' TIME...
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Remember, you can advertise everything you want... for free!!! Just write to
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JS!!!
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Female Crackers
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trained for free!
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Contact Janitor.
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I'm searching for broken comp. PRO 5000
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WRITE TO:
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Plk. 035070 C
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7840 Muellheim
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28th May, 1988
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THE SUPERVISORS COPY PARTY IN SWITZERLAND
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FOR INVITATIONS WRITE TO:
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MR.BRUNPAC / TSK
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P.O. BOX 12
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CH-1605 CHEABRE
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AMIGA SUB-EDITORZ WANTED!
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WANTED: MEMBERS
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Info: TED-CREW
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PLK 130560 C
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4220 DINSCHACKEN
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GERMANY
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I'm searching for a used driving license...
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Write to:
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PLK 123144 C
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4250 BOTTROP, GERMANY
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NICK from IKARI
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Is searchin' for a UK dick drive 1541...
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Give him a call if U have one to sell cheap...
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(+44) 2735 61917
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Software at Cheap prices...
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|
Call
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6491 228 361520
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& ask for Bernhard...
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|
|
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Hi-Tec is always ready to make colours for your demo...
|
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Write to Jeff!
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F.A.M.E.
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Is always ready to undertake all aural for your gamez...
|
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Contact:
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ADAM BULKA
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PASTORSACKER 18
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4300 ESSEN 16
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W. GERMANY
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FUSION AID AT ONCE...
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COLLECT USED STAMPS BEFORE THROWIN' 'EM AWAY...
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SEND 'EM TO US!!!
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Call
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IKARI's VOICE MAILBOX
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INTHA U.S.A.
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(818) 1377 5875
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IN GENERAL...
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COMPLEMENTS OF SCG
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|
The legend returns!
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The awesome people from the gaff of Liverpool, England are back! (The SCOUSE
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CRACKING GROUP, that is! - What do you mean you've never heard of us?!).
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So here we are, after a short (ish) but much needed, much enjoyed, quite-nice-
|
|
really break. We have regrouped and returned, and are going to totally and
|
|
utterly quash the ideals and concepts of the current hacking kingdom... but,
|
|
being such modest, selfless people we will move the trend of the conversation
|
|
into other areas of interesting-information-to-know. This includes:
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|
|
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1. Our views on the now-barren cracking world
|
|
2. The Scouse House future plans
|
|
3. General waffle and moaning
|
|
4. There is, in fact, no number 1
|
|
5. Ah! Here it is
|
|
|
|
Rightio then, let's hit the dog on the head and get down on it.
|
|
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|
At the present, we at the Scouse tavern think that there is an agglomeration of
|
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minor groups, whom has slowly but surely engulfed the top names, plunging them
|
|
into the boundless infinity of non-existence.
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Who can't all the smaller groups make like a wolf and pack together or else
|
|
make like a kangaroo and take a running jump.
|
|
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|
What has happened to quality (look it up in a dictionary!), for some reason
|
|
groups seem to be forsaking this ideal for quantity... lemons (people not in
|
|
this group) want trainers, documents and good intros...
|
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Are most intro-writers communists? Because nowadays all intros look the same to
|
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us (maybe it's just us!).
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We haven't been on a good confy for donkeys years, what happened to the good
|
|
old days of 20 or more interesting people on one confy (is this some kind of
|
|
subtle hint?).
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What are our future plans, then? We have only one... to put quality before
|
|
quantity, this meaning that our cracks will be really quite orgasimic.
|
|
|
|
Talking about cracks, speed is an advantage but surely receiving a game which
|
|
has more features increses its wantability.
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|
Incidently, we at Scouse dislike extremely the use of the word "lamer" and
|
|
prefer to the words "minor group", after all, all of us were once lamers!
|
|
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To English persons we wish to let it be known that Scousers never (that is, at
|
|
no time) use the phrase "it's wicked".
|
|
|
|
And so ends the Scouse huts contribution to this magnificent magazine... (This
|
|
is "Playboy" isn't it?) Perhaps there'll be more... Perhaps not!!!
|
|
The SCG-members
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THE REAL BASKET MASTER
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|
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|
A damn cool day we had, visiting DSH and MR.DECIBEL from ORION in the homeland,
|
|
called "Holland"... HO!! We first came to DSH, who woz just importin'
|
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"IMPOSSIBLE MISSION 2" via modem and then drove to MR.DECIBEL, who has quite a
|
|
comfortable hut. He suggested playing a Baketball match in his garden, between
|
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TRIAD (TK and me) and ORION, so it went on... But MR.DECIBEL was so fair
|
|
telling us that he's playing in the Dutch National team... urgh? Not a single
|
|
chance remained and we sank with 2:5, (MR.DECIBEL: 4, JS: 2, DSH: 1 and TK:
|
|
NONE! lame!). We spent the evening again at DSH'S home, cracking jokes ontha
|
|
fone... I hope to repeat this journey soon, eh?
|
|
JS
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WHAT FORTHA HELL...?
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+------------------------------+
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| / / |
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| III< - - THE |
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| III \ \ PAPILLONS |
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| +-----+ INT. |
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| |Anti | |
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| | fly+| |
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| | TPI | |
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| |spray| |
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| +-----+ |
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| |
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+------------------------------+
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Who do the PAPILLONS think they are? "Hey Hey Hey" (trying to imitate FS?) "Why
|
|
do you gays in TRIAD are so fucking proud of your Winter Edition?? You know we
|
|
released it 2 weeks before!"
|
|
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|
THE THING THAT NOT A SINGLE TRIAD MEMBER KNEW ABOUT A VERSION FROM TPI, AND
|
|
AFTER CALLING SOMNE GUYS, WHO HAVEN'T HAD THE GAME WORKING, WE DECIDED TO DO
|
|
THAT.
|
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ANYWAY, THE WINTER EDITION VERSION FROM THE PAPILLONS SUCKS, IT CRASHES DOWN
|
|
EVERY TIME (where woz the Fast Load?) WHAT CAN WE DO IF YOU DO NOT SPREAD YOUR
|
|
VERSION, EH?
|
|
|
|
Have a look at their version of "S.S. SOCCER" and "IMPOSSIBLE MISSION II", the
|
|
both crash down. Try to save on S.S. SOCCER or to play IMPOSSIBLE MISSION up to
|
|
its end. So, lesbians, come and say that again!!!
|
|
JS
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THE T R I A D RANKS
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ON 14-4 / 88!
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|
The of-fish-ial TRIAD rankings ontha 14th of April 1988 (merged in Germany):
|
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IKARI (boo boo baa baa), FLT (thanx 4 ze postcard, Tony), FUSION, ORION
|
|
(coolest meeting!), NETWORK, TRIANGLE (By the way, I typed 'Y'!), ACE, CFR
|
|
(goodie), SCG (Wossup?), ALLIANCE, PAPILLONS (look above!), BEASTIE BOYS, ESI,
|
|
NEW BENCOR BROS., ABYSS, HOTLINE (old Sledgy), TDF, CRIME (Johnnie), ZENITH,
|
|
TWG, SEX (Who's dat, Dan? Sounds good!), STARS, ONLINE and TRANSCOM... Too much
|
|
confusion? Too less life? Too less money? Too less brain!
|
|
JS
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|
|
The Adventures of
|
|
BUGGY DISKHEAD
|
|
(*note: this is originally a comic strip*)
|
|
|
|
Buggy holds a phone handset, makes "thumbs up" and exclaims:
|
|
"NOW, NEW SOFT FROM U.S.A. VIA TELEPHONE!"
|
|
|
|
Buggy smashes the handset into an acoustic couple (ie a modem) connects to a US
|
|
board whilst the keyboard makes a hacking noise and the modem beeps in the
|
|
background.
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|
|
|
Buggy meets his friends:
|
|
Buggy: "10 MARKS PER DISK, O.K.?"
|
|
Buggys' friends: "TOO MUCH"
|
|
|
|
Buggy looks depressed.
|
|
|
|
Friend: "WHY SO MUCH?"
|
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|
|
Buggy holds up his phone bill.
|
|
|
|
Buggy: "IN ORDER TO PAY MY PHONE BILL!"
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|
|
|
(C) 88 A.Krq.
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|
|
NEWS FROM THE CRACKERS' WORLD: SYSTEM FOUR
|
|
|
|
I just changed the title above, it is still the same column, but with other
|
|
clothez, you see??? It seems as if the March woz no quiet months! Why?
|
|
Because...
|
|
|
|
* One of Englands' best crackers returned to System Four and showed again their
|
|
skill with some cool cracks. I'm talking of SCOUSE CRACKING GROUP, that are
|
|
WEETBIX, CHUNK, DR.J and MOG. Other English groups got mighty rivals!
|
|
|
|
* Firkin, Smash and Gene left ACTUAL CRACKING ENTERTAINMENT, but in difference
|
|
from THE SILENTS who joined A.C.E., left it, joined and finally left it, they
|
|
built up their own group, named STARS.
|
|
|
|
* As DSH and MR.DECIBEL told us they kicked DIGITAL SOLUTIONS INC., EURATOM and
|
|
SOFTWAR TECHNICS out of ORION to hold the group as small as possible.
|
|
Nevertheless there are only a few German members of ORION left and that are
|
|
ZENOBITS, who used to be in 7'up.
|
|
|
|
* Steve of ZENITH is probably the most hated dude in England! Ian of Fusion and
|
|
Ironfist co-wrote a game called "Hard Labour" and told Steve that some dudes
|
|
wrote it and it was a mega cool game. "Hard Labour" was in fact a very big joke
|
|
on Steve coz it's just a demo that slags Steve off.
|
|
|
|
* IKARI expanded. TRIDOS, kicked out of FUSION coz of recrackin', joined also
|
|
as IRONFIST of ZENITH wanted to do but haven't done yet.
|
|
|
|
* Do you also agree that ACTIVISION are stupid for trying to do "AFTERBURNER"
|
|
on 64? What is more stupid is they will also try to do it on Spectrum and
|
|
Amstrad.
|
|
|
|
* JESTER of LAZER CRACKING SERVICE left LCS and joined IKARI. But they are
|
|
exclusively trading with THE SURVIVORS in the USA and JESTER also trades with
|
|
ATC, so he left and joined nobody less than FUSION, where he and MARK are the
|
|
only active guys left on 64, coz IAN changed his SYSTEM... even MITCH from
|
|
EAGLESOFT INC. said in his intro (IMPOSSIBLE MISSION 2): "Hey Ian turn that
|
|
AMIGA off... now!". Nothing to add.
|
|
|
|
* About IMPOSSIBLE MISSION 2: Everybody was upset coz quite unknown FREESTYLE
|
|
released it on the last Venlo meeting, but everybody must have noticed that it
|
|
is only a preview, that took its mysterious way from the German magazine
|
|
"Powerplay" to them. Everybody really thought it was the game, but their
|
|
version crashes down after some levels, even though they wrote in their intro
|
|
"this is the long awaited game". SHARKS released exactly the same version 2
|
|
weeks later. Good job, eh? The REAL "IMPOSSIBLE MISSION 2" just made its way
|
|
from the USA to Europe and guess what? It is the same loader as in "WINTER
|
|
EDITION", so I sent the not working one, imported by DSH / ORION, to the huge
|
|
creature of magical forces, better said: JANITOR from TRIAD, so you have to
|
|
expect a running version in a couple of seconds.
|
|
|
|
* Wasn't that the most frustrating incident for Europeans since years? "THE
|
|
GAMES: WINTER EDITION" didn't work on European computers, everybody thought
|
|
that one has to wait some months until EPYX releases the special European
|
|
versions. But they forgot two dudes that fixed it, the first MR.ZEROPAGE / TLC
|
|
who fixed it with a self-written load routine and the other one the living dead
|
|
JANITOR who fixed the EPYX fast loader. Thanx to them for the working version,
|
|
think of all that lamers that have to wait for EPYXS' release. So if you see
|
|
any review in any magazines you can be sure right now that those swines also
|
|
have our versions. HA! Another victory for SYSTEM FOUR!
|
|
|
|
* From RUBBERDUCK into RUB and then INSIDE THE BUILDING... NO! This is not a
|
|
new group... no! It's a single person! RUB from THE WANDERER GROUP? He is the
|
|
one that changed his name into inside the building... no April joke!
|
|
|
|
* Another bad news for 64 owners, one day after one heard of IAN / FS quitting
|
|
64 at the top of the success, STRIDER / FLT also said goodbye to the small
|
|
calculator to work on the grown up Amiga, but for how long? So only Gollum is
|
|
left on the 64 for FLT.
|
|
|
|
* FAIRLIGHT just wanted to merge with some FUSION members, but those changed
|
|
their minds as STRIDER told me.
|
|
|
|
* TRIANGLE 3532 are also back on the cracking market after a few weeks peace of
|
|
what else? Police. But read Swyxs' article...
|
|
|
|
* As MAD ALL / CFR told me secretly on a conference, CFR took in 4 members...
|
|
guess from which country? I bet you guessed wrong! They're from AUSTRIA and so
|
|
unknown that he forgot their names (on purpose?), but it seems as if they are
|
|
highly talented...
|
|
|
|
* Latest news from the SHARKS are that TPI (not PAPILLONS but THE PIRATES INT.)
|
|
left 'em and wants to join TRIAD. We (me and Dan) haven't stopped thinking
|
|
'bout dat.
|
|
|
|
* Not 100 percent sure I can tell that IAN and MIC left TRIAD together with the
|
|
GRONK, cuz making a legal group producing only Compunet demos. Word spread that
|
|
both Ian and Mic went crazy as they got their money for their game: Scout. It
|
|
seems as if England has been left from TRIAD members.
|
|
|
|
* F.A.M.E., who used to be in TRIAD, also LEGAL (as they call it!), improved
|
|
their very good sound routine as you can hear in the new "Digital News". They
|
|
also got offers from FIREBIRD, ELITE and CASCADE... and read and believe they
|
|
probably do the sound for "AFTERBURNER" / Activision!
|
|
|
|
* Did you think that "FLASHPOINT" and "VICTORY ROAD", both from Ocean, will
|
|
soon be released on 64? HA! As Ocean's software manager said it was never
|
|
planned to release these games on home computers... The company who made the
|
|
ads (Centersoft) only thought that... funny, eh?
|
|
|
|
- Guess what? That was all for today! Special thanx for those news to: LAZER /
|
|
NEW BENCOR BROS, CF / BEASTIE B., DSH and MR.DECIBEL / ORION, FUSION, NIK and
|
|
JUST ICE / IKARI, STRIDER / FLT, MAD ALL / CFR, ITB / TWG (!) and GENE / STARS.
|
|
Yours forever...
|
|
Jeff Smart
|
|
|
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|
|
VIDEO
|
|
|
|
Who said that cracking and video movies watching does not belong together?
|
|
Anyway, we didn't. From now on every month LAZER from NEW BENCOR BROS will
|
|
inform you about the latest pirate video released in System Four!
|
|
|
|
>> NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. 3 - DREAM WARRIORS
|
|
Yep, your old friend (or is it fiend?!) is back again! In Nightmare 3 we have
|
|
half a dozen fear-filled teenagers locked in a Top Security mental hospital,
|
|
being diagnosed as suicidal. Heather Langenkamp returns as the now grown up
|
|
Nancy, who organizes the kids into Dream Warriors to d. battle with Freddy on
|
|
his tort. This is much better than the first two, with some cool FX like the
|
|
man-eating Television! RATING: 73% Nightmare on Elm St. 4 is being filmed NOW!
|
|
|
|
>> PREDATOR
|
|
Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as major Alan Schaefer, leader of a special unit
|
|
sent deep into South America to rescue kidnapped diplomats. Arnold is on top
|
|
form as he takes on the guerillas and wiped them all out. But on the way home
|
|
an invisible alien takes out every member of his team until only he and a
|
|
captured girl remain... Well, you must be lame if you don't know the rest of
|
|
the story! All I can say about this is "BRILLIANT"! RATING: 92%
|
|
|
|
>> FULL METAL JACKET
|
|
Yes! Yet another fucking Vietnam movie! The story follows a bunch of raw
|
|
recruits through their training and into the Nam, watched closely by the marine
|
|
sergeant! Now what was the tune again? Oh yes: "If I die on the Russian front,
|
|
bury me with Russian cunt!" RATING: 85%
|
|
|
|
VIDEO STARS - APRIL 1988
|
|
|
|
1. PREDATOR
|
|
2. RUNNING MAN
|
|
3. ROBO COP
|
|
4. FULL METAL JACKET
|
|
5. NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. III
|
|
6. BEVERLY HILLS COP II
|
|
7. FATAL ATTRACTION
|
|
8. TOUR OF DUTY
|
|
9. MASTERS OF UNIVERSE
|
|
10. THE FLY
|
|
|
|
That's all for this month - see ya dudes...
|
|
LAZER of THE NEW BENCOR BROTHERS
|
|
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|
|
|
AMIGA
|
|
AMIGA - CHAT'S
|
|
|
|
As many of the 64 freaks also own an Amiga, and many of Amiga owners also
|
|
searched for Amiga games reviews in the "ILLEGAL", here are some short reviews
|
|
of some Amiga stuff, that has been released this month.
|
|
|
|
SECONDS OUT:
|
|
Looks nice at the beginning but after some hours of playing it's getting
|
|
boring. RATING: 6 / 100.
|
|
|
|
JUMPJET:
|
|
Jumpjet, the simulator, is about the same as on the 64 compared with the
|
|
possibilities of both machines. The handling is a bit difficult, on the other
|
|
hand it serves you some rather good features. It isn't that worse game on the
|
|
64, but there is still much left for being a top-hit, 71 / 100.
|
|
|
|
BLASTABALL:
|
|
Mastertronic produced better games on the Amiga (look at Kikstart II) but also
|
|
this one is a bit better as Mastertronics' first products. The future sport
|
|
featured in this game looses a bit of its' fun after more times playing, 29 /
|
|
100.
|
|
|
|
BMX SIMULATOR:
|
|
A long time for waiting passed by until the first Amiga game from Code Masters
|
|
is released, but it could have been a better conversion of this 64 game as
|
|
there are no big differences. Nevertheless the game is not that bad and it
|
|
earns 72 / 100.
|
|
|
|
SIDEWINDER:
|
|
Anoter Mastertronic Program, at first I got a bit shocked cos of the flickering
|
|
screen, but it seems to be one of the best shoot 'em ups on the Amiga, 90 /
|
|
100.
|
|
|
|
BUBBLE BOBBLE:
|
|
The Amiga scene gets attacked with so many 64 games, some of 'em are not much
|
|
different from the old 64 version, one of 'em is Bubble Bobble which you can
|
|
also load on a 64 with the same effects, 42 / 100.
|
|
|
|
STRIKE FORCE HARRIER:
|
|
Quite a good conversion of the ST game, even though it's quite difficult to
|
|
control, 82 / 100.
|
|
|
|
PINK PANTHER:
|
|
It's rather hard to find the aim of that well looking game, nice grafix and
|
|
sounds make it get a 87 / 100.
|
|
|
|
BONE CRUNCHER:
|
|
Again a 64 conversion with great graphics, but one knows the game already from
|
|
the 64, 83 / 100.
|
|
|
|
At last I have to say don't worry when disagreeing with my opinion! I tried to
|
|
make objective reviews, but it's obvious that there are some who believe in the
|
|
opposite. Thanks!
|
|
SSD / TSK-CREW
|
|
|
|
|
|
CHANGING GROUP AND NAME?
|
|
|
|
Hey, wake up! What makes you feeling better after having changed group and
|
|
name? That seems to be popular in the last months (especially in Germany).
|
|
BEASTIE BOYS, SHARKS and THE WANDERER GROUP ad older examples and ONLINE,
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DEVILS and UPFRONT shows that there is no end of it. Of course all of you think
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of the success with for example FUSION or ORION had had after such an
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activation.
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The opposite of this is proved by FAC, HOTLINE and TRIAD which are high at the
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rankings as in the last end three years. We also played with the idea of
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changing our name (TSK-CREW into MOUNTAINEERS, sounds funny, eh?) but after all
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we all voted to keep our present name. The case was that we thought of all the
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changings which also would have drawn by our friends and contacts. Guess, in
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half a year there have all big groups changed their names, nobody knows of the
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good old names. A legend will never exist anymore!
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Another point of view is that lots of freaks change their groups, they leave
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the first group then join the second, afterwards join the third crew and after
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all go back to group one. Comrades, you have to understand that your crew will
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only succeed when keeping the same name and members.
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It makes us a lot frustrated to hear every day: X and Y of A and B have founded
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a new group called YABX. I know there are differences between agreeing and
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disagreeing to this statements (also in my deeper minds) but make your own
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thoughts of it, says...
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SSD / TSK-CREW
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No, methinks that why not changing the group when you can improve your grade of
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being known? Why not building up a new group when you think you better start
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with something totally new, maybe because of having made some mistakes cuz of
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some reason? Why not kicking out some members for recracking, lazyness or
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whatever? Methinks that this is a fine characteristic of the whole cracking
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scene, that we call System Four.
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Won't that be too boring if there are only always the same and old groups? Of
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course why changing one's name when you have such a reputation that you don't
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want to give it up ever, that's true and only a few did that, I want to add
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RADWAR, EAGLESOFT INC., CFR, FAIRLIGHT who all exist for quite a lot of years
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now and why should they give up their name?
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Hope to hear other points of view, I'm waiting for yours...
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yours...
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Jeffie
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MUSIC MAESTRO'S
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MANIACS OF NOISE
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To every active owner of a C 64 the MANIACS OF NOISE are no strangers. For some
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time they have brightened up the scene in the demoworld and on compunet with
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their magnificent music in always excellent and original demos.
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The ever increasing quality of their brainchildren have led to some lucrative
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deals with some big names in the software market. At Venlo I was lucky enough
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to bump into CHARLES DEENEN, the guy who wrote the music routine on which all
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the maniacs' music is written by Marcel 'MAD' Donne' and Jeroen 'JT' Tel. After
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much debating he gave me an exclusive for "ILLEGAL". I obtained the previews of
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some music they wrote for forthcoming games and I can tell you that they are
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breathtaking but unfortunately I can't give 'em out otherwise the people might
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get into trouble, but to be complete here is a list of the music they finished
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or are finishing soon:
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For HEWSON: Battle Valley, Cybernoid, Top Trucker + Chromethunder by JT.
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Scorpion by MAD
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For MARTECH: Vixen by JT
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For THALAMUS: Hawkeye by JT
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For MASTERTRONIC: Scout and Gaplus by JT
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For PLAYERS: Starballs by JT
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For STARLIGHT: Alloyrun by JT
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Most sound fx on these games were made by Charles Deenen and Marcel Donne', who
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is also doing the music for THE LAST WARRIOR. So if all you stumbeling
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programmers out there need a hand then read what they asked "ILLEGAL" to print:
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If you're writing a game and you need high quality professional music and fx
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let us do it and your game will be a success, write for orders to:
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CHARLES DEENEN
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GILDESTRAAT 19 B
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5824 AA HOLTHEES
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HOLLAND
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MAD ALL / CFR
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WANTED!
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WANTED! Known and famous AMIGA groups who would like to write every month a
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full page of game reviews, news from the 16 bit scene and what's going on
|
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around the AMIGA. So if ya like to be the "ILLEGAL" - AMIGA - writer, give us a
|
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try of your abilities and send yer short reviews to:
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"ILLEGAL"
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PLK 123144 C
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4250 BOTTROP
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W. GERMANY
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So don't waste yer time if you miss real Amiga news!
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JS
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COPS 'N CRACKERS
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Hi dudes. SWYX of TRIANGLE here!!! Now the headline sounds like a bad imitation
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of "cops n' robbers" or a movie in one of system four's cinemas, but it
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definately is not!!! I named this article "Cops 'n crackers", cus the cops and
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a Danish organisation called S.U.S. seriously are hunting us crackers in
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Denmark now!
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The whole thing started about a month ago, when a guy named "Goodfather" (by
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the way, he was a member of one of my former groups, Danish Cracking Crew) got
|
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busted. Well, the only bad thing about him getting busted was that he is a
|
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lousy coward! Wha'd'ya think the guy promised? Yeah, he promised to help the
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police catching all the big and known groups in Denmark!
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Thanks, pal!
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Unfortunately, Goodfather had more than 300 adresses in his archive, including
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mine, of course. So... I paniced! The same night, I started removing all my
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disks, adresses and tape copies etc., and so did all the other Triangle
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members. In the next 14 days, 3-5 other guys got busted. The only well-known
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one was The Tiger of Dexion, who is just on the Amiga!
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Last week then, I returned all my equipment to its place and Triangle started
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cracking and trading again! We thought that the danger was over, until today
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(5th of April), when I just heard that Azake of System had been busted! Scratch
|
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of the triangular gang called him, to ask if it was true or not and it sure
|
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was! Well, the guy admitted that it was right be his own fault that he got
|
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busted, cuz he sold some games to a S.U.S. guy a few days ago. That's all I
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know about that case here, I just wish that it'll be over soon. And now... An
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announcement:
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ON THE FIRST OF MAY, TRIANGLE WILL BE ONE YEAR OLD!! WE WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE
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BIRTHDAY-CARDS / CALLS FROM EVERYBODY, EVEN THOSE OF YOU WE DON'T TRADE WITH.
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EVERYONE, WHO SENDS A POSTCARD OR CALL US, WILL BE SPECIAL GREETED IN THE
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BIRTHDAY - DEMO, BUT REMEMBER WE MUST HAVE 'EM BEFORE 1ST OF MAY (ADRESS ON
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LAST PAGE) !!!!
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Remember to look out for the first TRIANGLE / TRIAD cooperation, which is a
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demo made by COZMIX and JANITOR, the living deads!
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Well, before leaving you, just a few greetings to:
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- TRIAD (JS, IXION, JANITOR and HI-TEC)
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- HEPTAGON, SCIENCE 451 (THE BRIGHT LION), I.O.F. and the NICE GUYS in
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Triangle.
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See ya in issue #28
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SWYX OF TRIANGLE
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HAVE YOU TRIED THE
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TRIAD VOICE MAILBOX?
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GIVE IT A TRY, CALL
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(305) 529 7168
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NOW!!!!!!!
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THE STORY OF SYSTEM FOUR
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While you look at HER, you suddenly notice that you have to leave at the next
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bus stop, so you stand up and press the button that makes the bus stop.
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Surprise, surprise, SHE also stands up and want to leave, together with this
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lame friend of hers (you guessed that he wasn't a 'f-class' guy) to your
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dissapointment. Anyway, you found out that SHE is goin to the same school as
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you do. You recognize an old friend of yours and begin to talk to him. You lost
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HER out of your eyes, but you couldn't keep your minds away from her. Isn't
|
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that a shame? You, as one of the few 'a-class' guys is ruled by a girl? By a
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SINGLE girl?
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Anyway, you are still thinking about HER as you leave school after 6 boring
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lessons, you walk home and do the work for your business. You turned the radio
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on and heard sum exciting news: "It was heard outta System Four that several
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guys were kicked outta it, cuz of vandalism and negative outward apperance!".
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HA! you thought, it's totally new that they keep an eye on your outward
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appearance. Anyway it's not bad, you guessed that you knew those lamers that
|
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had to say: Goodbye. You took a look on your watch and you scared 'cause it was
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almost 6 o'clock and the meeting of the 5 biggest classes, that are 'a' up to
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'e', should begin at 6 o'clock. You took your clothes and left to the meeting
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place.
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You meet all your friends from your group that is the most established in the
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FOUR. Sumtimes when you lay back you can't believe that you entered this group,
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it's incredible when you see those other 50.000 groups that do exist after all.
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You drank sum beers with your friends, of course the 'a'-class guys have a
|
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seperated room from the others. Everybody's watching out for them, but they
|
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couldn't notice the few that have all rights. You heard that some changes are
|
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about to come, because sum went over to 'System 16' and now there are only
|
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THREE groups ruling. And at the same time you catched the word that another
|
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group is about to be kicked down from 'a' to 'b'. Stunning, stunning, what can
|
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happen? Anyway, another great thing is that the leader of the group also
|
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changed to 'system 16', but sum members of 'em still remained in 'system four',
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it seems that only the biggest can survive.
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You talk with your friends about taking in sum new members, news and anything
|
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else as sum decided to take a secret visit to 'snatchos', the girl's town. You,
|
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though you were scared, cuz you've never been there before, agree to go with
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them. You take a back seat in the fluffy car with your 4 friends and after you
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entered the nearest bar in 'snatchos' you relax a little bit with your 3rd
|
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bottle beer in your hand. You feel the heat growing up, you sing to the music,
|
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sit down with your friends in a corner and talked... as the door swinged
|
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open... and SHE entered alone, you almost forgot her. TO BE CONTINUED
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/JS
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WOSSUP???
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Ahhh! I can't wait until the 16th of April for the April Venlo Party. You know
|
|
who's coming? IKARI, FUSION, FAIRLIGHT, TRIAD, HOTLINE, RWE, BEASTIE BOYS, TWG,
|
|
ORION, CFR and all the others that are normally there! Ut seems as if that
|
|
would be an ultimate party and we here in Germany used a little trick to
|
|
persuade even the guys that are coming from very far away (FUSION - TRIAD) to
|
|
come to Venlo, but more about that in the next issue... cuz it's a secret!
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|
This month was quite surprising with super releases from the American companies
|
|
EPYX and CINEMAWARE that increase the hopes for a hot summer. Anyway, before
|
|
returning to SYSTEM FOUR, I send, as usual, a couple of greetings to my best
|
|
friends that, that inlude: JESTER of FUSION (cum), JUST ICE from IKARI WARRIORS
|
|
+, STRIDER + GOLLAME (sorry Fred, it woz Toni's idea), Badd Boyy from THE
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SURVIVORS (old Kookmeyer!), CF from BEASTIE BOYS, DSH and MISTER DECIBEL of
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ONION, ha, ORION, of course, my dude SWYX from the TRIANGULAR GANG (take care),
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LAZER from NEW BENCORS (thanx 4 da magz), MWS of RADWAR (Mike's escapes part
|
|
two?), GENE from ze STARS (best action 4 years?), SLEDGE from HOTLINE, SPC and
|
|
INSIGHT ZEBOILDONG from THE WANDERER GROUP, MAD ALLIGATOR of CFR (beware of
|
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lamers' revenge...), ACU / SAP, FOTT OHNE NY, JAYS, UNKNOW and as special
|
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"Wossup?" to BERNIE in Canada!, all from TRANSCOM, THE MIND SLAYER of THE
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AWESOME GUYZ (still imprisoned?), DOMINATORS, PAPILLIONS, JEWELS - the 3 from
|
|
Denmark, ABYSS (Longshot), EAGLESOFT, FBR, WEETBIX from SCOUSE CRACKING GROUP
|
|
(so sorry for mentioning ya so late, Georgie!), THE MANAGEMENT (Tom, cold
|
|
callz), MR.ZEROPAGE and SSD of TSK-CREW.
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And now special thanx for keepin the "ILLEGAL" alive: ALEX of REDLINE 97 (go
|
|
on!), HOBBIT / FAIRLIGHT (hope 2 meet U, Allain), NY / TRANSCOM (thanx for
|
|
copying..), TENZET / TRIANGLE (thanx mate) and all other SUB EDITORS from the
|
|
different countries. Super Special Hellos to all members of TRIAD, especially
|
|
to:
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The zombie dat found his way outta the black forest 'n who's now standing in
|
|
front of the gate of the huge castle showing his authorization for entering
|
|
(You know who I mean?), the guy who's not only counting the rankings together,
|
|
but takes care of everything (clear eh?), the guy who celebrated his 18th
|
|
birthday not at home, but I guess eventhough it was wet, wasn't it (something
|
|
like MISS PINGY?), the master of the colours who said: "Hooray" after being
|
|
back from boring Spain (Pay or flee?), the blond young guy, prefering this
|
|
Swine football team (Dingens...) and last F.A.M.E. (THE TAPE!). See you at
|
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Venlo, yours:
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Jeffie
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+-----+ +-----+
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| RIP | REQUIEM IN PEACE... | RIP |
|
|
+-----+ +-----+
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|
Welcome to the darkest article of yer favourite magazine, this is dedicated to
|
|
two people who decided to quit the computer world alltogether. Maybe not for
|
|
ever but certainly for a very long time, everybody already know about them but
|
|
this way I and the rest of "ILLEGAL" salute them.
|
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|
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- The first one is, the ever-popular JANITOR of TRIAD. Already when he was in
|
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RELAX he showed great promise, as the weeks passed he got better and it was
|
|
soon obvious that was no normal cracker, he made the shortest version of games,
|
|
with sometimes even adding a copy-chain to it, at the time, the only versions
|
|
that were slightly better were those of TCS. His talent must have caught the
|
|
eyes of TRIAD, who after the departure of MR.Z were struggling to get good
|
|
versions out, cuz TRIAD incorporated RELAX and the rest is as they say HISTORY.
|
|
MR.Z became his mentor and Janitor began not only to make the shortest versions
|
|
but he also removed all the bugs that were original in the game. Due to his
|
|
talent OUTRUN among other games became a little bit fun to play. Just think
|
|
about it, OUTRUN has just reached the stage of best selling game ever on the 64
|
|
but only we, the pirates, have a full working version thanks to, yes, JANITOR.
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|
|
|
- The second loss for the pirate world this month was MR.VENLO himself, THE
|
|
SILVER SURFER (TSS) of HOTLINE. Always a familiar face at copyparties (he was
|
|
in fact the first guy I ever spoke to at Venlo) and a true HOTLINE member with
|
|
heart and soul. He will always be remembered as the guy who wrote all those
|
|
magnificent intros on all those HTL cracks and trainers (which he did himself).
|
|
For ever a year for ever a year now a had been in HOTLINE, but before that he
|
|
drifted from group to group, some of which were: ABA-SOFT, ISG, THE GOONIES,
|
|
THE WAVE, TCC 1777 and HCS 5005, but of the latter he admits that it was the
|
|
biggest mistake in his life. Soon after that he joined HOTLINE and stayed there
|
|
until now. The main reason for him to drop out is that his exams (finals) are
|
|
coming up real soon so he has to study very hard coz one can't expect to stay
|
|
an intro-maker for the rest of his life. His last work on the Commodore 64 was
|
|
of course an intro, ironically not for his group HOTLINE, but for
|
|
COMMANDOFRONTIER (sounds familiar!) and for that I will be remembering him for
|
|
a very long time...
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THERE COMES A TIME WHEN THE FINAL CURTAIN FALLS, WHEN HEROES LEAVE THE BATTLE
|
|
OF HIGHER GOALS FOR THESE TWO THAT TIME HAS COME... They are surely not
|
|
forgotten, and will never be.
|
|
MAD ALL / CFR
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CRACKER OF THE MONTH
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|
|
Who got originals coming up? Who did super quality cracks in March? Was it
|
|
again FUSION? FLT for the first time? Or who or what?
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1. IKARI (5) 7.15 pts
|
|
2. TRIAD (3) 7.08
|
|
3. FAIRLIGHT (2) 6.43
|
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4. FUSION (1) 6.36
|
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5. EAGLESOFT INC. (8) 5.92
|
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6. ORION (10) 5.17
|
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7. PAPILLONS (9) 5.14
|
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8. A.C.E. (-) 4.92
|
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9. HOTLINE (7) 3.71
|
|
10. BEASTIE BOYS (-) 3.07
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Status: "Who said 'freezing'?"
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DEMO CHARTS!
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|
|
Well, a TRIAD demo on number one, and everybody's screaming that it was clear
|
|
since I'm in TRIAD, but be honest: Which one woz better?
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1. TIGER HELL
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by TRIAD
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2. COZMIX BEZT II
|
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by TRIANGLE
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3. MUSIC MACHINE
|
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by E.O.C.
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4. ARTISTIC 5/6
|
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by MADSQUAD
|
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5. METAL COMBAT
|
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by M.C.C.
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6. MAGIC DRUMS
|
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by SOEDESOFT
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SOFTWARE-STARS
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1. GAMES: WINTER EDITION (-)
|
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2. THE THREE STOOGES (-)
|
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3. IKARI WARRIORS (-)
|
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4. IO (-)
|
|
5. SINBAD (-)
|
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6. PRO BMX SIMULATOR (1)
|
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7. CORPORATION (-)
|
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8. PLATOON (2)
|
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9. POWER AT SEA (7)
|
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10. RIMRUNNER (-)
|
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11. REVENGE OF DOH (3)
|
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12. TARGET RENEGADE (-)
|
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13. THE TRAIN (8)
|
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14. BASKET MASTER (9)
|
|
15. TETRIS (5)
|
|
16. COMBAT SCHOOL (6)
|
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17. TROLL (-)
|
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18. PACLAND (-)
|
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19. VENOM STRIKES BACK (-)
|
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20. BMX KIDZ (10)
|
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21. BLOOD VALLEY (-)
|
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22. A T F (-)
|
|
23. QUEDEX (17)
|
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24. SCOUT (-)
|
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25. PREDATOR (4)
|
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26. SUPER HANG ON (-)
|
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27. PIRATES (19)
|
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28. CHAMONIX CHALLENGE (15)
|
|
29. BLACK LAMP (24)
|
|
30. INT. KARATE + (21)
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A BIG 'THANX YA!' FOR VOTING:
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NIK / IKARI, JESTER / FUSION, BADD BOY / SURVIVORS, MWS / RWE, CF / BEASTIE
|
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BOYS, GENE / STARS, DSH & MR.DECIBEL / ORION, LONGSHOT / ABYSS, MAD ALL / CFR,
|
|
PHOTONY / TRANSCOM + SSD / TSK-CREW
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+ IMPRESSUM +
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+-------------------------------+
|
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| > ILLEGAL tm 1988 |
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| > 3rd year of appearence |
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| > No. # 27 |
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| > (c) 88 by TRIAD |
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| > Circulation: |
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| about 600 Copies |
|
|
| > Price: 2 DM |
|
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| > Date of release: |
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| 16th of April |
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| > Next number will come on |
|
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| 21th of May |
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+-------------------------------+
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| > Editor: |
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| Jeff Smart / TRIAD |
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| > The "ILLEGAL"-TEAM: |
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| Mad All - Commandofrontier |
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| Swyx - Triangle 3532 |
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| Mr.Decibel - Orion |
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| > The Sub-Editors: |
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| Austria : TSK-CREW |
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| Belgium : CFR |
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| Denmark : TRIANGLE 3532 |
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| England : NEW BENCOR BROS. |
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| France : TRANSCOM |
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| Germany : REDLINE |
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| Holland : ORION |
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| Norway : STARS |
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| Sweden : FAIRLIGHT, TRIAD |
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| Turkey : THE METRO BOYS |
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| U.S.A. : SURVIVORS, TAG |
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+-------------------------------+
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| Good morning, dearie! |
|
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| Again reached the last page, |
|
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| searching for some more |
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| information... |
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|
| Well, there is no. |
|
|
| Anyway, we are waiting for |
|
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| comments on the 100% English |
|
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| now. All articles, grafix and |
|
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| stuff like that have to |
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| arrive on the Friday, the |
|
|
| 13th (HORROR!) of May 1988 to |
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| to the editor to be sure that |
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| you will find 'em in the next |
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| issue... |
|
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| We wish you all the best, |
|
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| take care... |
|
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| Your "ILLEGAL"-team |
|
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+-------------------------------+
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| ANY COMMENT ??? |
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+-------------------------------+
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| TRIANGLE |
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| P.O. BOX 116 |
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| 8382 HINNERUP |
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| DENMARK |
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| CFR |
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| P.O. BOX 406 |
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| 8400 OOSTENDE |
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| BELGIUM |
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| JEFF SMART |
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| PLK 123144 C |
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| 4250 BOTTROP |
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| WEST GERMANY |
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| Wanna get your issue ? |
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| Then don't forget 2 DM or a |
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| S.A.E. and send it to: |
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| "ILLEGAL-SUBSCRIBEMENTS" |
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| PLK 012314 B |
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| 4600 BOCHUM 6 |
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| WEST GERMANY |
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